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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. the Japanese then established the state of Manchukuo. This lasted until the Soviet Union and Mongolia launched the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945. -
Second Sino - Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. It started with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 in which a argument between Japanese and Chinese troops became a battle. -
Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk, France. The battle was fought between the Allies and Nazi Germany. the Battle of Dunkirk was the defense and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain from May 26 to June 4 1940. -
Western Desert Campaign (Desert War)
The Western Desert Campaign, took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya. The campaign began in September 1940 with the Italian invasion of Egypt. A British five-day raid in December 1940, led to the destruction of the Italian 10th Army. Benito Mussolini then asked for help from Adolf Hitler, who responded with a small German force sent to Tripoli under Directive 22. The Germans group were under Italian command but Italian dependency on Nazi Germany made Germany dominant. -
Genocide
The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany murdered six million Jewish people, around two-thirds of the Jewish population between 1941 and 1945. The Jewish were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event during the Holocaust era, in which Germany and other nations persecuted and murdered other groups, including Soviet prisoners of war, and Soviet citizens , the "incurably sick", communists. the death toll rose to over 17 million. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's aims to conquer the western Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise strike by the Imperial Japanese upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States formal entry into World War II the next day. -
Kamikaze
Kamikaze were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who suicide attack for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with other air attacks. About 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during the war, and more than 7,000 naval personnel were killed by kamikaze attacks. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. Code named Operation Neptune, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
the United States detonated two nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 with the consent of the United Kingdom, required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.
